Total Landscape Care Digital Magazine
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irrigation and shape were set in terraces from the beach up. The difficult terrain meant using an excavator to muscle in the boulders, rather than a preferable pulp truck. A second layer of filter fabric between the tiers keeps 18 to 24 inches of loam from sifting through the boulders. Over everything is a coconut-fiber, erosion-control matting, lasting two or three years until the earth is stabilized before biodegrading. The matting is sliced to allow for plantings, which ultimately will interlock the framework and fulfill the aesthetic. The south end was steeper. Burdick installed banks of Maccaferri Terramesh units, which come Burdick created containers for stone and loam where she then planted Rosa rugosa on the horizontal and vertical surfaces – with the entire project being topped off with coconut-fiber matting. 16 To ta l L a n d s c ap eC are.c om TLC0613_Irrigation.indd 16 J U N E 2 013 5/23/13 2:00 PM